Problem: Search for a news article that describes or addresses an illness or disease in some way. Summarize the article in a few sentences, specifically explaining what it mentions about health or medicine. Include a link to the actual article in your response.
Do some research to write a short paragraph explaining the illness mentioned in the article. What is the illness? Where is it most prevalent? Who does it mostly affect? What is the experience for those who have the illness?
Use your sociological imagination to write a paragraph describing the social implications of the illness. Which parts of the illness are medically constructed, and which are socially constructed? Is the illness stigmatized?